Subject: [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user.

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:06:24 +0300

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> > Until qemu was running as "root", which is unnecessary.
> 
> Well...I can't get this to work; my childhurd does not run.  Did you
> test it?  Any special tricks needed, adding "childhurd" to "kvm" maybe?
> 
> I do like the idea...
> 
> Greetings,
> Janneke
> 

Shot in the dark, do the permissions/ownership on /var/empty matter?
childhurd is far from the only user claiming /var/empty as home.

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